Implement for removing paint, etc.



April 29, 1924.

J. C. HENDERSHOT IMPLEMENT FOR REMOVING PAINT, ETC

Filed Aug. 1, 1923 A TTOHNEY Patented Apr. 192d.

JOSEPH C. HENDERSHOT, 0F PATERSON,,NEW JERSEY.

IMPLEMENT FOR REMOVING PAINT, ETC.

Application filed August 1, 1923. Serial No. 654,989..

for Removing Paint, Etc, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a tool for removing from glass and the like hard smooth surfaces paint, paper and other substance adhering thereto, and in particular to provide a holder in which a suitable straight-edged blade, as the blade of a Gillette safety razor type, may be placed and effectively used for the purpose indicated and may also be arranged to be sheathed, as when the tool is not in use.

I In the accompanying drawing,

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the tool, with the guard member in position to protect or sheathe the blade;

Fig. 2 is an underneath plan view of the same with the handleeshown dotted;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation with the handle removed;

Fig. 4 a sectional view on line 44, Fig. 1, with the handle removed;

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the tool, with the guard member retracted;

Fig. 6 is a front elevation;

Fig. 7 shows the guard member in plan and n transverse section in two different planes; and Y Fig. 8 is a plan of the blade.

The essential parts of the holder are the body member a provided with a suitable handle, as will appear, and the guard or clamping member I).

The body member a consists of a flat metal elongated block-having a tang 0 projecting centrally from one of its long edges and an underneath bevel d along its opposite or forward-edge and having a recess e formed in its upper surface and reaching nearly the full longitudinal extent of the block and from thelatter to nearly the former or rear edge. In this recess, about centrally thereof,

is tapped a hole f and in a line parallel with the beveled edge of the block and somewhat nearer the same than its rear edge are formed two upstanding studs g. The hole f receives a set-screw h.

, The ard member I) is a plate'which is about t e same thickness as'the recess 6 is deep and it has nearly the same plan form as the recess. It is receivedin the recess and v has two underneath transverse grooves i to receive the studs 9 and a central transverse slot j to receive the set-screw h. Except for a top bevel is formed along its outer edge its thickness is substantially uniform.

m is the blade. This, as shown, may be an ordinary Gillette safety razor blade, having holes a which receive the set-screw h and the 35 two studs 9 of the block a,

0 is the handle which has the tang 0 driveninto one end thereof- As considerable pressure is exerted on the handle when the device is used the tang should be substantial and of good length. The invention is however not broadly concerned with any handle or how the handle is formed though it is preferable that it be elongated and of a thickness to. be received comfortably between the thumb and the forefinger, allowing the first and middle fingers to rest on the top of the tool and m.

In use the guard member is set back in the 3 member a in the position shown by Fig. 5 and there secured by the set-screw it, so that members a b clamp theblade m fast; the blade is held trued, i. e., with its outer edge parallel with and projecting somewhat beyond the beveled edge d of member a, by the lugs g, which fairly snuglyfit its holes a. Grasping the tool in the way already indi cated the user places it in contact with the glass or other surface to be cleaned in such a so way that the edge of the blade and the bevel d both rest on said surface and in that position pushes the tool over said surface; the bevel d affords a rest or gage which determines the best angularity which the tool ea should have in order to remove the paint or other substance from said surface most efliciently. When the tool is used in this way all of the substance adhering to the surface to be cleaned which is within the path of and me as wide as the blade may be removed practically in a single stroke of the tool. The bevel 7c is designedto allow the shavings of the removed substance to pass unopposed over the top of the tool, preventing the latter from me becoming clogged therewith and enabling the user to see that each stroke is being performed efi'ectively.

When the tool is not in use the set-screw 1s turned back and the guard member, thus released, is moved outward or forward to the limit of its grooves and slot, whlch will proper formed by the parts a, b

bring its outer edge beyond the outerv edge of the blade, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, wherethat the tool may be handled with safety.

The rear blade edge is always sheathed by the back of the recess 6, which leaves a ridge Z along the back of member a.

My invention has been especially designed for use with Gillette safety razor blades, but broadly it is not material what type of blade is used.

;What I claim as new and desire by Letters Patent is A tool of the class described including a to secure body member having'a straight edge and a pair offixed upstanding studs arranged in a line parallel with said straight edge,. a blade resting on said member and having a working edge projecting beyond and parallelwith slot registering with said third hole inthe blade, said grooves and slot being inangu- .lar relation to said edge of the blade, and a securing device upstanding from the body member through the thirdhole in the blade and through said slot in the clamping member, said groove and slot permitting sliding adjustment of the clamping member in one direction into sheathing relation, and in the opposite direction into unsheathing relation, to said edge of the blade. r

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

JOSEPH o. HENDERSHOTV 

